New gen have it easy...
You're right about parenting trends have changed
These days, people seem to think that a parent hitting their kid when the kid misbehaves is "abuse" (hear it a lot on social media), even though many Asian and African countries do so in their households and the children come out well mannered (most of em), seems like mainly white people think that way
Oke I'm going to stop you right there. It is abuse we did the scientific research hitting does not help with discipline. But it does help with making a distance between parent and child. If you hit a kid for doing something bad you don't teach it to not do the thing you teach it to not get caught. We did the research we have known this since the 60s. But people really like the argument but i didn't turn out that bad. It was shit then and its shit now.
And the African and Asian argument is just so reductive. You are trying to reduce a culture down to only one part of it.
The research came from a child psychologist who said “to make your kids happy, you need to give them what makes them happy.”
His child died by suicide…
He did a good job of making his kid happy…
Seems to me child hood anxiety, and suicide are up 10 fold from then…
If kids weren’t coddled, they would be tougher, and would be better suited to handle the ahit the world IS GOING TO THROW AT THEM.
Spanking my child is not abuse.
Yes it is. I'm sad and glad that you don't see how bad this is. Spouler alert it's really fucking bad